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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 42159

Christening of USS Akron (ZRS-4), 8 August 1931


Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, delivers his address at Akron's christening ceremonies, held in the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation airship hangar at Akron, Ohio.
The airship's control car is in the background.

Photograph received from the Navy Recruiting Bureau, 1932.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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2 July 2002